Family Portraits

Our friend Zack Funk took some pictures of our family as a gift and he did such a good job!

Playing Catch Up!

It's been awhile since I posted. Life if getting away from me! I'm just going to give a quick update on our year up to this point. I promise to post more soon!

We went to Disneyland with our good friends, the Hollister Family.






We built a playset in our backyard for the kiddos.

Our school had a carnival, the kids had a blast and Noah won a fish!


We had a couple of pesky peacocks knock on our front door a few times! Seriously!


Noah graduated from Kindergarten! We are so proud of him!


We went camping and booked a cabin, this is what we got! We should have just brought a tent! This was seriously a made over home depot garden shed. Funny enough it was big enough to house a double size bed, mini fridge, mini microwave, and a toilet. Jason ended up sleeping in the car, he was too claustrophobic.

Went to a lake with Jason's parents and our nephew and niece. They had fun in the sand!

Here's Snowball!

Here is our newest acquisition. He is 2 months old and was given to the pet store with the rest of his litter. We had 2 hamsters named Blueberry and Buttons. Buttons died a few weeks ago and I sent Jason down to the pet store to get a plastic tube to connect the two cages together so that Blueberry had 2 cages to run around in. Apparently the tubes were going to cost $13 and then Jason found a hamster for free, hmmm... you see what line of thinking won out. So now we again have 2 hamsters in their 2 separate cages. Snowball is a male "Winter White" Russian Dwarf Hamster. He is doing really well already. Blueberry is not hand trained and bites everyone. Snowball has been held extensively since we got him yesterday and he has not nibbled once, YAY! He's a sweet little thing and the kids adore him!

Our Christmas Fun!

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Snow Day, No School, No Work!

Holy Cow! We woke up to quite a bit of snow. School is cancelled, they don't plow the roads up here and we don't have 4 wheel drive, so we're housebound for the day, YAY! And it's only 7 a.m. and still snowing. I'm sure we'll have lots of fun pictures to show throughout the day!


Here's our house!

Keeva decided to try to eat the snow!


Our driveway is very popular today since it's the steepest in the neighborhood!

Emma is so proud of her snowman!

Here's Jason's, Daddy sized snowman

Noah loved throwing snow at daddy!

Day at the Sacramento Temple

We had our primary activity at the Sacramento Temple and had such a fun time learning more about ancient and modern day temples. When we were done with our classes we had fun with the Hollister Family taking tons of pictures!







Abbey and Noah, best buddies, little peas in a pod!

Beautiful Girls!

Noah, my sweet boy! He was soooo done with picture taking, but then he found a tree he could climb, yay, I got a few more!


I never need to find reasons to take pictures of Emma, she is always ready and willing!



It was a great afternoon!

Busy Day, later this night we had our ward Christmas party, a night in Bethlehem. We all dressed in period costumes, brought our canned food "to be taxed" and enjoyed a bustling Bethlehem market place where we were furnished with a bag of gold to spend how we chose, we purchased meat, bread, and fruit, were able to buy gifts and play dreydel games at the toy shop. Later in the evening we got to hear the beautiful words of Luke 2 in the Bible and saw a re-enactment of the Christmas story. It was a beautiful night!






Emma and Noah were really excited about Joseph and Mary because they are their primary teachers at church.
Our friendly little angels!
Little Buddies!